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<a name="mime-registry"></a>MIME Registry</h2></div></div></div>
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<span class="refentrytitle"><a href="gnome-vfs-2.0-gnome-vfs-mime.html">MIME typing</a></span><span class="refpurpose"> — functions to get a mime-type for a file using its name or its content</span>
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<span class="refentrytitle"><a href="gnome-vfs-2.0-gnome-vfs-mime-utils.html">gnome-vfs-mime-utils</a></span><span class="refpurpose"></span>
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<span class="refentrytitle"><a href="gnome-vfs-2.0-gnome-vfs-mime-database.html">MIME Database</a></span><span class="refpurpose"> — functions for getting information about applications and components associated with MIME types.</span>
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<span class="refentrytitle"><a href="gnome-vfs-2.0-gnome-vfs-mime-monitor.html">gnome-vfs-mime-monitor</a></span><span class="refpurpose"></span>
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<span class="refentrytitle"><a href="gnome-vfs-2.0-gnome-vfs-application-registry.html">Deprecated Application Registry API</a></span><span class="refpurpose"> — formerly used for managing applications.  Replaced by
<span class="type">GnomeVFS MIME Database</span> API</span>
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      MIME types provide a standardized for denoting the content of files or
      file streams. GnomeVFS exposes simple methods for both identifying the
      MIME type of a particular file, and deciding how to act on it.	The MIME 
      and application registries provide a mapping between files of a particular 
      mime type and applications / bonobo components which can view or edit 
      those files. Applications such as Nautilus use this database to generate 
      appropriate actions when files are activated. 
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